Christof Mauch

Christof Mauch (born February 9, 1960 in Sindelfingen ) is a German historian.

Life

Christof Mauch studied literature, philosophy, history and Protestant theology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Humanities and Religious Studies in London ( King's College and Leo Baeck College ), as well as at the Universidad de Salamanca . During his studies, Christof Mauch worked part-time until 1988, together with Hans-Joachim Kleber, organist of the Württemberg regional church responsible for the parishes of Breitenstein and Neuweiler.

In 1984 Christof Mauch founded the Universitas Verlag Tübingen (UVT), which he managed until 1996.

In 1990 Mauch received his doctorate with a thesis on the Swiss writer Kurt Marti in Tübingen , and in 1998 he received his habilitation in Modern History at the University of Cologne . In 1996 Mauch was Professorial Lecturer at the American University in Washington, DC , and from 1996 to 1998 Director of the OSS Oral History Project at Georgetown University . From 1999 to 2007 Mauch headed the German Historical Institute in Washington . Since 2007 he has been Professor of American Cultural, Social and Political History and Transatlantic Relations at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Together with the research director of the Deutsches Museum, Helmuth Trischler , he took part in the invitation to tender for the Käte Hamburger Kollegs for research in the humanities and in 2008 raised twelve million euros for an international humanities college "Nature as a cultural challenge". This resulted in the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich , founded in 2009 . The evaluation of the Carson Center in 2014 confirmed that funding would continue for a further six years until 2021.

Christof Mauch's research areas are modern German literature, the history of the peace movement, resistance to National Socialism, the history of American secret services and environmental history.

Awards

Christof Mauch received several awards for his scientific work, including a. the Offermann-Hergarten Prize (for "Shadow War against Hitler"), the Henry-Russell-Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society of America (for "Adolf Cluss. Architect") and, as a member of the Cluss consortium, the Leadership of History Award the American Society of State and Local History . From 2008 to 2015 Christof Mauch was a member of the Board of Trustees of the National History Center of the USA. From 2011 to 2013 he was President of the European Society for Environmental History, in 2013 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Center for Ecological History and an Honorary Professor of the Renmin University of China. In 2015 Mauch received the Planetary Award from the Institute for Future Competencies and the Design-me-a-Planet Initiative, and in 2017 he received the Award for a Distinguished Career in Public Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History in Chicago.

Fonts

Christof Mauch has written or edited various scientific books, a two-volume special lexicon of horology ( Horological Lexicon , together with Eckart Mauch), a volume with Limericks ( TechtelMechtel: What happened next, nobody knows , together with the artist Karoline Löffler) and Our money heads . Portraits of the new banknotes (with Uwe Karbowiak).

As an author:

• with Tobias Brenner : For a world without war. Otto Umfrid and the beginnings of the peace movement. Ulmer, Schönaich 1987, ISBN 978-3-924191-25-2
• Poetry - Theology - Politics: Studies on Kurt Marti. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-484-18118-4 (dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1990).
• Shadow war against Hitler. The Third Reich in the sights of the American secret services 1941–1945. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-421-05196-7 .
• The 101 Most Important Questions: American History. Beck, Munich 2008. (Chinese translation Beijing: Julin Publishing Group, 2011).
• with Jürgen Heideking : History of the USA. 4th, revised and expanded edition. Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2006; 6th, revised and expanded edition 2008.
  Czech translation: Grada, Prague 2012.
• Notes from the Greenhouse. Making the Case for Environmental History. Rachel Carson Center, Munich 2013.
• Human and environment. A historical perspective on sustainability. Ökom, Munich 2014.

As editor:

• Kurt Marti. Texts, data, images. Foreword by Walter Jens . Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1991.
• with Jürgen Heideking: USA and German Resistance: Analyzes and Operations of the American Secret Service in World War II. Tubingen 1993.
• with Jürgen Heideking: secret service war against Germany. Subversion, Propaganda and Political Planning by the American Secret Service in World War II. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993.
• with Birgit Zischke: Research and Funding. A German-American Guide for Historians and Social Scientists. German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 1999. (= Reference Guide , No. 11).
• with Philipp Gassert : Mrs. President. From Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2000.
• with Thomas Reuther: Americana in German Archives. A Guide to Primary Sources Concerning the History of the United States and Canada. With the collaboration of Jan Eckel and Jennifer Rodgers. German Historical Institute, Washington, DC 2001 (= Reference Guide , No. 12).
• Jürgen Heideking: Constitution - Democracy - Political Culture. American history from a transatlantic perspective. Edited and selected by Christof Mauch, Heike Bungert and Marc Frey . Scientific publishing house Trier, Trier 2002.
• with Joseph Salmons: German-Jewish Identities in America. From the Civil War to the Present. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison (Wisconsin) 2003.
• Nature in German History. Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford 2004.
• with Andreas W. Daum : Berlin - Washington 1800–2000. Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2005 ( review , H-Soz-u-Kult , January 2007).
• with Alan Lessoff: Adolf Cluss, architect and revolutionary. From Heilbronn to Washington. Heilbronn 2005.
• with Nathan Stoltzfus and Douglas R. Weiner: Shades of Green. Environmental Activism Around the Globe. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham (Maryland) 2006.
• with Thomas Zeller: The World Beyond the Windshield. Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe. Ohio University Press, Athens (Ohio) 2008.
• with Thomas Zeller: Rivers in History. Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America. Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh 2008.
• with Christian Pfister : Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses. Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History. Lexington Books, Lanham (Madison) 2009.
• The American presidents. 44 historical portraits from George Washington to Barack Obama. 5th, continued and updated edition. Beck, Munich 2009.
• with Dorothee Brantz: Animal History. The relationship between humans and animals in modern culture. Schöningh, Paderborn 2010.
• with Lawrence Culver and Katie Ritson: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Encounters and Legacies, Rachel Carson Center, Munich 2012.
• with Rüdiger B. Wersich: USA Lexicon. Key terms on politics, economy, society, culture, history and German-American relations. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-503-13746-6 .
• with Helmuth Trischler et al .: Making Tracks. Human and Environmental Histories. Rachel Carson Center, Munich 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christof Mauch in the catalog of the German National Library

Website at the LMU Munich: https://www.amerikanistik.uni-muenchen.de/lösungen/professoren/mauch/index.html

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norbert Mauch: Weil im Schönbuch, Breitenstein, Neuweiler. Churches - History - Art , Tuningen: GA Ulmer Verlag 1987.
2. ^ Dispute over director position ended: Christof Mauch will head the German Historical Institute in Washington . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 19, 2001, p. 4.
3. ↑ Katja Gelinsky: So that the national fixation of research can be overcome . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 18, 2008, No. 192, p. 37.
4. ↑ Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Second round for international colleges ( Memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release from October 24, 2008.